Karagöl, Dargeçit Explained

Karagöl
Province:Mardin
District:Dargeçit
Coordinates:37.4925°N 41.6853°W

Karagöl (syr|Dayro d-Qubo) is a settlement in the district of Dargeçit, Mardin Province in Turkey. It is located in the historical region of Tur Abdin.

In the village, there is a church of Mor Yaqup.

History

In 1914, Dayro d-Qubo (today called Karagöl) was inhabited by 100 Assyrians, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. There were ten Assyrian families in 1915. They belonged to the Syriac Orthodox Church. It was located in the kaza (district) of Midyat. Amidst the Sayfo, the villagers were escorted to safety at Hah by Agha Hajo of the Kurtak clan.

95 Turoyo-speaking Christians in 15 families resided at Dayro d-Qubo in 1966. The village was forcibly evacuated by the Turkish army in 1995 due to the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and its population moved to the nearby village of Beth Kustan.[1] By 2003, five families had returned to Dayro d-Qubo and had begun building two new houses and restoring the village's church that had been vandalised by Kurds. In 2013, the village was inhabited by 4 Assyrian families.

References

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Bibliography

. Ritter. Hellmut. 1967. Turoyo: Die Volkssprache der Syrischen Christen des Tur 'Abdin. 1. Franz Steiner Verlag. de. Hellmut Ritter.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rev. Stephen Griffith: The Situation in Tur Abdin - A Report on a Visit to S.E. Turkey in June 2003. 9 October 2024. Syriac Orthodox Resources.